Mrs. Arabella Westfall

MRS. ARABELLA WESTFALL.

The death of Mrs. Arabella Westfall, mentioned in last week's Argus deserves more than a passing notice. She was one of the early pioneers of Washtenaw county having come to Dexter village in 1827, as the wife of Mr. Mathews, coming from near Conway, Mass. With them also came her mother, two brothers and two sisters. Her mother and two brothers died many years ago. Her next sister became the wife of the late Gen. A. Williams. Mrs. Williams died in 1876. Her youngest sister became the wife of the late Judge Samuel Dexter, the founder of Dexter village. As Mrs. Mathews, she raised three children, a son who died many years ago with consumption and two daughters who survive her, Miss Angeline Mathews with whom she lived at her death and Miss Arabell Mathews who became the wife of Charles G. Clark, the founder of the Peninsula Courier, now Ann Arbor Courier. After living in widowhood many years, Mrs. Mathews became the wife of Elias Westfall, of Lima, with whom she lived until his death about ten years ago. Mrs. Westfall has seen the full development of Washtenaw county from the wolf's howl to the musical University chimes.